Libros de Mexico (2 libros)

Researchers Castro Ricalde and McKee present a documental work covering sources from the United States, México, Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Spain and Serbia to account for the complex development of the Mexican cinematographic industry in the first half of the 20th century and its efforts to establish a national identity myth designed for local consumer commercialization and powerful enough to stand against Hollywood dominance. The study spans 2 decades from the first sound movie Santa (1932) to 1955, when the "Mexican cinema of the "Golden Age" had a preponderant role in the...

The heroine is Otilia, a wealthy Mexican woman who has a plain-looking face but a beautiful body. She falls for an outlaw while helping him recover from his gunshot wounds and when he does not return her love, seeks to have him killed. The novel won Mexico's Xavier Villarrutia prize.